Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America: The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831-1852

ISBN-13: 9781138663473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 208 str.

Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

Offers the study of Antebellum southern slavery and the credit system. This work explains how the Bank of the United States supported the government's and the nation's credit abroad by providing seemingly limitless credit facilities to southern planters, especially in the territories along the lower Mississippi River.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Exchange and Money Markets; Chapter 2 The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831–1836; Chapter 3 Pennsylvania and Mississippi: The United States Bank, 1836–1841; Chapter 4 Assignments, preferences, and Trusts: The Failed Bank of the United States in the Courts of Mississippi and the Nation; Chapter 5 The Business of Making Collections; Chapter 6 Conclusion;

O autorze

Richard Holcombe KilbourneJr.